>> Cost issues and the relationship wit the local subsidiary; we have >> very little problems with the ME6500, one being the BFD with SVIs >> issue that you don't like either if I recall correctly. > > Cost is high but it can cut both ways. That leads to a long discussion for > another day and I'm sure you're already familiar with all the talking > points.
Yeap, but we've got a 3x price hike on the ME6500 from our initial purchase to current quotes, which left us no choice but to evaluate alternatives. > The BFD on SVIs is definitely something that bit me on all my SX/SR > platforms. I still don't have a working solution for that problem. I would really love to just hear what Cisco says about why BFD on SVIs are a bad thing. They might have a good point. >> Are you sure ME3750s are doing good for your network ? We had tons of >> issues with 3750-Metro, a product that I strongly recommend for my >> competitors... we haven't tested ME3400 which sound very nice (but >> doesn't have MPLS) or 4500 with Sup-VI (no MPLS on the software yet). > > We haven't had any problems with them. I just returned from the MetroE > training course in SJC and the ME3750 played an important role in the > course. It worked fine in the class. I think it's important that people > understand what the ME devices were designed for and deploy them with that > in mind. This is something that I failed at initially. The ME3750 wasn't > designed to be a generic DC-powered L3 switch. It was purpose-built for > L2VPN termination and some aggregation. When people like myself think that > it's an all-encompassing MPLS box then they get sorely disappointed. I was. > But it works well for what it was designed to do. It's good to know that Cisco changed the speech regarding this product. I think that if one uses only as PE (no other P or PEs relying on it for LDP of a critical backbone), and it uses only 2 uplinks (no ring or mesh, two uplinks to a P backbone), no L3VPN, it might work. In the mean time, I'm glad that all the 3750-Metro we've got were operational leases: we will return them all, so I won't have to write [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ on the customer satisfaction surveys anymore. Rubens _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
